Quote Originally Posted by Burns View Post
That's the only sonic booms I've ever heard - from fighter jets flying over when I lived in a very rural area.

We went to an airshow at Wright-Patterson Airforce base in 2005 and you could actually see the energy building up around the wings. They're not allowed to boom in populated areas like that though, so you could see the energy acculumation, but they weren't allowed to break it. I didn't get a good pic with my crappy camera at the time, but this is what it looked like. Very strange to be able to actually see energy like that!

I have a video of it from my old camera but it wants me to download Quicktime to play it and I don't want that crap taking over my computer
That reminds me: In Chicago a while back, one of the blue angels ripped through the city blow the skyscraper roof line at 400kt/h+, and blew out a bunch of windows. And that was the last time that guy flew .